NAICS 311710 seafood product preparation and packaging obligations

Few awards, large seafood vehicles

NAICS 311710 is seafood product preparation and packaging. Contracting officers assign it when the principal product is processed or packaged seafood as the Census class groups it — canned, frozen, or otherwise prepared fish and shellfish. This $1,485,089,043.27 is that manufacturing tag. It is not a harvest tonnage, not a fishing-vessel count, and not a restaurant-meal total.

Three hundred ten awards produced a mean of about $4.8 million. That shape is the opposite of high-count hardware codes: a small award book with a high mean, consistent with large food-supply vehicles rather than thousands of small line items. The packet does not count pounds of fish, species, or meals served.

Commercial fishing is a harvesting class. A vessel-charter or raw-catch contract tagged to fishing would not sit in $1.5 billion under 311710 if the officer judged the principal activity to be harvesting rather than preparation.

Food contracts and payment timing

Seafood-preparation contracts often obligate estimated quantities against subsistence or similar vehicles and pay as lots ship. Unused option years leave obligated balances unpaid. Treating $1.5 billion as seafood already consumed would overstate cash.

The 310-award count is not a pallet count. USAspending may still group multiple delivery orders into awards. Dividing $1,485,089,043.27 by 310 awards is a mean obligation per award identifier, not a price per pound.

What this total excludes

Assistance that funds fisheries programs often lacks NAICS and does not enter $1,485,089,043.27. In-house government kitchens are not 311710 contracts. Poultry processing and other 311 food classes are separate hubs.

Wholesale seafood merchants tagged to a 424 distribution NAICS follow a merchant class, not this preparation-and-packaging manufacturing class. Canned, frozen, and otherwise prepared seafood can share 311710 when that is the principal product. The $1,485,089,043.27 total does not split species or pack sizes across the 310 awards.

How to use the 311710 hub

Read $1.5 billion and 310 awards as the seafood-preparation tag, then open the seafood product preparation and packaging industry page for award-level fields. Rank 311 food-manufacturing codes on the all-industries index without converting this class into a fishing-harvest or commissary-sales total.

This guide does not add species lists because they are not in the facts object. A commissary resale figure is not this manufacturing tag. Quote obligations, not meals served, and keep harvest tonnage out because commercial fishing is a different NAICS family.

Classification limits

Seafood preparation is not commercial fishing and not a wholesale merchant class. Mixed catch-and-process vehicles follow the principal NAICS. SpendingVault reports the tagged 311710 sum.

Extract updates will move $1,485,089,043.27 and 310 with USAspending.

Subsistence vehicles versus pounds on the dock

Three hundred ten awards at $1,485,089,043.27 produce a mean of about $4.8 million. That is a small award book with large vehicles, the inverse of high-count hardware codes. Federal subsistence and similar food contracts often obligate estimated quantities and call against them. The mean is not a price per pound. The packet does not name species, pack sizes, or buyers. Commercial fishing remains a harvest class; a vessel contract tagged to fishing is not this preparation total.

Wholesale seafood merchants tagged to a 424 distribution NAICS follow a merchant class, not 311710 manufacturing. Poultry and other 311 food codes are separate hubs. Assistance that funds fisheries programs often omits NAICS and stays outside $1,485,089,043.27. Open the seafood product preparation and packaging industry page for award-level fields. Rank 311 food-manufacturing codes on the all-industries index. Cite USAspending.gov. Obligations remain distinct from outlays on open lots. In-house kitchens are not 311710 contracts. A searcher asking how much the federal government spent on seafood should still separate preparation and packaging from commercial fishing. The $1,485,089,043.27 figure answers the NAICS 311710 question only. The 310-award count answers how many award identifiers carried that tag, not how many pounds were packed. Open the seafood product preparation and packaging industry page, then compare other 311 food-manufacturing codes on the all-industries index. Keep the language to obligations recorded in USAspending.gov, and do not convert the mean of about $4.8 million into a price per pound.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 311710?

Seafood product preparation and packaging contracts in USAspending show $1,485,089,043.27 in obligations across 310 awards. That is a food-manufacturing tag, not commercial fishing and not commissary sales. The figure is obligations, not outlays. Assistance without a NAICS code is excluded from this industry extract.

What is the average seafood-preparation award?

Dividing $1,485,089,043.27 by 310 awards yields about $4.8 million. That mean often reflects large subsistence vehicles rather than a small invoice. It is not a price per pound and not a meal cost. The packet does not publish a median or a species mix.

Does this include commercial fishing?

Only contract actions tagged 311710. Harvesting is a different NAICS family. Mixed catch-and-process buys follow the principal code the officer selected. This $1.5 billion is the preparation-and-packaging tag. Use fishing hubs for harvest classes instead of this manufacturing code on SpendingVault.

Are these dollars already paid to processors?

No. USAspending reports obligations on this hub, not outlays. Open delivery orders and unused options can leave balances unliquidated after the award is recorded. The 310-award count is not a proof of seafood received. Cite USAspending.gov for the tagged extract on SpendingVault.